Aaron, I agree with your major objective: We need to make this City a place where we all can live.
But, your modest proposal is too modest. It corresponds pretty much to existing conditions. The major flaw in your plan and the principal injustice in the current situation is precisely that it leaves enforcement of the law up to the police officer. This makes enforcement arbitrary and capricious. If a police officer doesn't like your looks, he/she can bust you. There is no equal justice under the law because black people always look more threatening to white police than other white people do: driving while black, walking while black, talking back while black, etc. But the enforcement is even more a crime against class than it is a racially biased crime. If you're poor, you do it in the street. If you're not, you do it in your suite. In either case, enforcement of existing laws allows the just-us system to scapegoat the least powerful and the most vulnerable in our society. No. This cannot be done piecemeal. We as a society must recognize what is wrong here, and we must end it at once and with one voice. Ed Felien Powderhorn _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
